Workers at the Cargill beef-packing plant at High River, Alberta, have voted 98 per cent to reject the company’s offer of a new contract.
But negotiations with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 401 will continue and company spokesman Daniel Sullivan said Cargill hopes to avoid a strike. The deadline is Dec.6.
"We are willing to keep meeting to avoid any labor disruption, which is in no one's best interest during an already challenging time," Sullivan said.
The plant is Canada’s largest and processes about a third of Canada’s beef.
One of the workers main concerns is safety from COVID-19. The plant had the largest outbreak of the virus of any Canadian company last year.
